Job Description: Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Company: Affirm

About Affirm: Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

About the Developer Productivity Team: Developer Productivity exists to make work better for every engineer at Affirm. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate software development across the company. We own the entire space between a developer’s laptop and production, including ephemeral dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, test automation frameworks, dependency management, and release engineering. Our tools and platforms enable engineers to ship code quickly, safely, and with confidence. This team supports over 900 engineers working across a broad stack in a hypergrowth Fintech environment—a complex, high-leverage challenge with impact at scale.

What You'll Do:

• Set Technical Strategy: Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by working with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a Force Multiplier: Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes to multiply your team's impact.
• Own Team Operations & Availability: Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a Culture of Quality & Ownership:
  • Conduct high-quality code reviews and uphold design standards for your team.
  • Advocate for these standards beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
  • Increase collaboration through practices like pair programming and knowledge sharing.
• Develop Talent: Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend or infrastructure systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Feedback & Iteration: Demonstrated growth and impact trajectory showing mastery in proactively gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
• Distributed Systems Expertise: Extensive track record of supporting highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS (GCP, Azure), distributed databases, containerization, and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure Components: Active experience building scalable infrastructure components including pipelines (Jenkins, Buildkite, GitHub Actions), configuration management, and automation.
• Feature Delivery: Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high-quality, easily understood, and usable code.
• Ambiguity Tolerance: Thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable diving deep into language idioms and system architectures to understand how they work.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with our global and remote engineering team.
• Developer Environments (Bonus): Experience owning, managing, and building developer environments; ephemeral environments are a bonus.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Base Pay Grade: P
• Equity Grade: 13
• Pay Structure: Affirm uses a simple and transparent pay structure based on factors including location, experience, and job-related skills. Employees new to Affirm typically start at the beginning of the pay range.
• Total Compensation: Includes base pay, equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits.
• Benefits: Includes 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents.

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